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Part that had me rolling my eyes - SPOILERS

posted 5 years ago by KBiker (1020)
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When Roy leaves the Neptune space station, he detaches a hatch from the ship and uses it as a shield to make his way thru the debris of Neptunes rings and make it back to his ship orbiting above. Click, eyes rolling around in my head. How could he even find the orbiting ship in the vastness of space, and how the hell was he propelling himself toward his ship? And then ramming onto the surface of his ship, tumbling ass over teakettle and somehow making a grab for a handhold before he bounces off into space. Couldn't the writer come up with something better than that? It was moments like this, among other silliness, that pulled the film down to a mediocre level for me.

To be honest, the movie did have a few moments that seemed to be leading to something interesting. Ultimately, though, it failed, at least for me.

At least Brad Pitt had one film this year that succeeded (One Upon a Time...), and oh how it did. So he's batting 50% for 2019.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 5 years ago

Pretty much all the parts:
1. Workers falling off antenna array due to electrical surge? What, no tether?
2. Moon pirates?
3. Baboon takes over research lab? (Okay, that was kind of cool, but primate research is being banned even now, probably won't have it in the future).
4. Stopping for a distress call? They have to accelerate all the way to Mars, can't waste the fuel braking and restarting.
5. Climbing a rocket as it launches and breaking in?
6. Using space guns on an intruder in your ship? Do you think you might hit something important to your survival if you miss?
7. Antimatter from a 14-year old spaceship 3 billion miles away can destroy the solar system, but nuking it doesn't worry anyone?
8. Pops has propellant in his space suit to try to get away, but Sonny has to launch himself from a spinning space antenna like Captain America.
9. A sheet of tin will guard you from rocky debris as you blast through Neptune's rings?
10. Nuclear/anti-matter explosions will give any spaceship a boost, don't worry about accuracy.

It was as laughable as Gravity, but without Sandra Bullock to make it worth watching.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Never mind that. What I couldn't get past was how bad Pitt looked in this movie. Man, he's aging badly!

Yes, the film was just plain dumb. An insult to any audience's intelligence. But Brad Pitt's sunken, lined face was so distracting it made it all the worse.

We enjoy seeing good-looking actors because it makes us believe that life is good for some people, at least. And some people, at least, don't get old and wrinkly. So when a public person who is noted for his good looks turns up looking a bit creaky, it's disconcerting. And it spoils movies.

Just my opinion.

[–] Nate Adams SA23 (902) 5 years ago

There was a lot wrong in this movie in general but maybe the reasoning behind using the door makes sense somehow.

The asteroids are not coming at him so they not as dangerous. He is propelling towards the rocks and he is bumping them away with his door so the impact sends them hurtling away from him so he is good like that.

Now however he could be sending some of those rocks in the direction of his escape craft...

[–] L1 (1316) 5 years ago

Its very interesting how he has worded it...

[–] Nate Adams SA23 (902) 5 years ago

Who?

[–] rureadytocrumble (4) 5 years ago

I fell asleep for a whole whack of this movie. I had such hight hopes, but it was too light on plot for me!

[–] Techto (1316) a year ago

Totally agree. There’s no way he could have reached his ship by dead reckoning, safely traversed the rings or survived the collision.